On 08/08/2012 09:33 AM, Adam Sparks wrote:
I saw an email just like this like week and made a switch to chromium. There is a difference. Especially when opening a new window, Firefox has some very large spikes. Don't use Thunderbird so I cannot say anything about that. On Aug 8, 2012 6:30 AM, "Thaddeus Nielsen" <thaddeus.nielsen@gmx.us> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:34:14 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I have watched this in top for the past week or so. Thunderbird and Firefox are causing X cpu usage to shoot upt to between 80-100% on simple tasks like scrolling a message list in tbird or simply opening css menus in firefox. All of this used to be instantaneous and never cause the cpu to bat an eye. But now, it is very pronounced and brings the desktop to a crawl. This box is not a screamer, but plenty fast, P4 2800/4G/Nvidia 8600GT.
How do I determine what is causing this? X? ff/tb? something else? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks.
My suggestion: remove firefox and install firefox from mozilla.com. When a similar experience occurred for me, I did that and found that the response was much better in the version from mozilla.com.
T.
What version of thunderbird where you using?
I have 13.0 top - 12:45:03 up 3 min, 4 users, load average: 0.94, 0.50, 0.21 Tasks: 198 total, 2 running, 196 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 6.4%us, 1.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.0%id, 1.0%wa, 0.6%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 2.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 1.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 4.0%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8175488k total, 1164556k used, 7010932k free, 30860k buffers Swap: 10485756k total, 0k used, 10485756k free, 453308k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1341 root 20 0 194m 44m 9m S 4.0 0.6 0:07.40 X 1834 user 20 0 926m 109m 36m S 3.3 1.4 0:06.86 thunderbird This is the most cpu that thunderbird uses